Why Jesus failed to stop the sack of Christian Rome.St. Augustine of Hippo's view in 'City of God'

Why Jesus failed to stop the sack of Christian Rome, the capital of a (now Christian) Empire. The city was sacked by the Goths in 410CE. St. Augustine of Hippo in his most well known book 'The City of God against the pagans' tries to answer the issue of why Rome fell when it was in the Christian God's favour to keep the empire strong for the benefit of Christianity. The pagans of that time had blamed the fall of Rome on the decline of worship of the pagan deities and the loss of pagan values. Augustine tries to refute their arguments while criticising the worship of the pagan deities and their failure to protect Rome and its armies at various times in history. The video is the first part of a series of videos on 'City of God against the pagans'

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Chapters
00:00 The fall of Rome 410CE
03:11 Who was Augustine
04:19 Augustine's thinking
09:20 Why did the Christian God allow Christian Rome to fall?
12:13 The use of Christian churches as sanctuaries
14:38 The plundering of the city
15:46 That no temples were ever used as sanctuaries before Christianity
17:43 The 'cowardice' shown by pagans fleeing to the churches
19:57 Why the pagans survived the fall of Rome
20:34 Rounding up

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Le Sac de Rome
Evariste-Vital Luminais (1821-1896)
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Évariste Vital Luminais, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Barbarians Before Rome
Evariste-Vital Luminais (1821-1896)
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Évariste Vital Luminais, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Vandals
By Joseph-Noel Sylvestre 1890
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Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

François-Nicolas Chifflart, Le Sac de Rome par les Gaulois, 1863.
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François-Nicolas Chifflart (1825-1901), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
South Netherlandish; Painting; Paintings-Panels
circa 1490
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Master of the Legend of St. Augustine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Augustine, ''City of God'' (''De Civitate Dei''). Illuminated manuscript from 1470. From English Wikipedia: en:Image:CityOfGodManuscript.jpg Original source: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldi...
Original source: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldi...

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Augustine of Hippo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Master François, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Maître François, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Maître François, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Augustine of Hippo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons